John Bertolini

BOOKS:

The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, (reviewed in TLS, etc.).

Man and Superman and Three Other Plays, Intro. And Notes. Barnes & Noble, 2004.  Also published as E-book, 2009.

Pygmalion and Three Other Plays. Intro. And Notes. Barnes & Noble, 2004. Also published as E-book, 2009.

Shaw and Other Playwrights. Ed. Vol. 13 of SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies . The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw . Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, etc.

ARTICLES:

“Pirandello and Shaw” forthcoming in Pirandello in Context, ed. Patricia Gaborik, Cambridge U.P., 2019.

“Commentary on ‘George Bernard Shaw and Anesthesia,’ ” Journal of Anesthesia History 2, no. 2 (2016): 33.

“The Shaw Tradition” in Shaw in Context, ed. Brad Kent (Cambridge U.P., 2015), 350-356

Program Note for Rattigan’s Flare Path, Middlebury College, Nov. 2015

Program note for Major Barbara, Middlebury College, October 2010.

Psycho at Fifty: Pure Cinema or Invitation to an Orgy?, New England Review, Volume 31, Number 3 / 2010.

Program essay: “After the Dance Comes the Reckoning” in After the Dance Program. Shaw Festival, Ontario Canada, July 2008 

Also published in NER, V.29, n.2 (2008), pp.35-37

Also published in Shaw Magazine, Fall, 2008, pp.2-5

Program Note for Stoppard’s Jumpers, Middlebury College, April, 2008

“Wilde and Shakespeare in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell,” in SHAW, 27 (pp.156-164). The Pennsylvania State U.P., 2007.

Program essay: “Welcome to Feydeauville” in Hotel Peccadillo program, Shaw Festival, Ontario, Canada, June 2007.

“Shaw Responds to Shaw-bashing,” in SHAW 25 (pp.127-134). The Pennsylvania State U. P., 2005 (originally given at ISS Shaw Conference at USF, March, 2003).

“Tennessee Williams” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (pp.410-419), ed. Jay Parini. Oxford U.P., 2004. Rev. and expanded, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, forthcoming 2019.

“Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw,” in British Writers’ Classics, ed. Jay Parini (pp. 197-213). Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.

Reprint of “Rear Window, or the Reciprocated Glance” in Framing Hitchcock ed. Sidney Gottlieb. Wayne State University Press, 2002.

“Don Juan’s Past and the Future of the Human Species” New England Review (ed. Stephen Donadio) 23:2, pp.44-47, Spring, 2002

“Terence Rattigan” in British Writers: Retrospective Supplement VII. ED. Jay Parini. Scribner’s, 2002.

“George Bernard Shaw” in British Writers: Retrospective Supplement II. Ed. Jay Parini. Scribner’s, 2002.

Chapter on Man and Superman (from Playwrighting Self) reprinted in George Bernard Shaw’s Plays, ed. Sandie Byrne. A Norton Critical Edition, 2002.

Program Notes for productions of Tartuffe, Arcadia, Don Juan in Hell, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Middlebury College, 1994-2002.

“Shaw Family Values” in SHAW 16. ed. Dan H. Laurence and Margot Peters. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

“Rear Window, or the Reciprocated Glance,” in The Hitchcock Annual (1995), pp.55-75.

Review —Essay: “London Dramaturgy” on Shaw’s drama criticism, in ELT (1994), pp.70-81

“Introduction: Shaw as Mimic and Model” and “Finding Something New to Say: Rattigan Eludes Shaw.” SHAW 13. The Pennsylvania State U.P., 1993, pp.1-7, 93-102.

Entries for Henry Sweet, Constance Wilde, and Frank Harris. The Encyclopedia of the 1890s . Garland, 1992.

“The Doctor’s Dilemma: The Art of Undoing.” Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 7: The Neglected Plays. Ed. Alfred Turco, Jr. 1987, pp.151-169.

“Imagining Saint Joan.” Shaw. Ed. Daniel Leary. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983, pp.149-161.

Rpt. in Man and Superman and Saint Joan . The MacMillan Casebook. Ed. A. M. Gibbs. 1991.

Also rpt. in Major Literary Characters: Joan of Arc . Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1992.

Also rpt. in George Bernard Shaw (Modern Critical Views), ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 2010.

Chapter on Pygmalion (from Playwrighting Self ) reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Gale), 1992.

“Fringe and Alternative Theatre in Great Britain.” Dictionary of Literary Biography l3. British Dramatists Since World War II, Part 2: M‑Z. BC Research, 1982.

“Shaw’s Ironic View of Caesar.” Twentieth Century Literature (winter, 1981) Ed. William McBrien, pp.331-342.

Rpt. in Major Literary Characters: Julius Caesar. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1992.

“Ecphrasis and Dramaturgy: Leonardo’s Leda in Rucellai’s Oreste.” Renaissance Drama VII (1977). Ed. Joel Kaplan. Northwestern U.P., pp.151-176.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND PUBLIC LECTURES:

Address to the Annual Terence Rattigan Society Dinner at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on “Teachign Rattigan’s Plays over the Decades,” July, 2018.

“Mother I Didn’t Mean To, or the Clash of Two Rights in Miller’s All My Sons” Weston Playhouse, VT, April 2016

“The Hitchcock You Don’t Know but YouTube Does,” Middlebury College, September, 2014

Paper: “Shakespeare’s Shadow and Wilde’s Art in Shaw’s You Never Can Tell,” given at ISS Shaw Conference, Brown University, June, 2006 (in revised and extended version, SHAW 27, 2007 .

Graduation Address to Seniors at Awards Ceremony, Middlebury College, May, 2007

Lecture: The Can Can in Cinema (Middlebury College, Spring 2007)

Paper: “Shaw Responds to Shaw-bashing,” given at ISS Shaw Conference at USF, March, 2003) .

Lecture: “The Wisdom of You Never Can Tell” (with Q and A sessions) given at Shaw Festival during 4-day subscription Seminar, August, 2005.

Keynote lecture on the Don Juan tradition at Middlebury College International Symposium on Don Juan and Seduction, April, 2002.

Lecture: “Common Sense about Heartbreak House” given at Shaw Festival during 4-day Shaw subscription seminar, July, 1999; also participated in Q&A sessions

Abernathy lecture: “Hitchcock’s Signature Appearances and What They Mean (or Rumors of La Morte D’Auteur Greatly Exaggerated),” Middlebury College, Spring, 1999

Graduation address to Februaryy Seniors, 1999

Inaugural lecture for Ellis Chair: “Terence Rattigan and the Fate of Modern British Drama,” Middlebury College, 1998

Lecture and Discussion on Shakespeare’s The Tempest to students and staff of LI101, Middlebury College, 1997 and 1999

Presentation of scene from Ozu’s Early Spring at Japanese film symposium, Middlebury College, 1997

Lecture: “How to Know Which Movies Are Good or Bad: An Introduction to Film Appreciation,” Thomas Fellowship, 1997, and Wonnacott Commons, 1998

Panel Presentation on Sense and Sensibility at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 1997

Lecture (joint with Mary Ellen Bertolini) on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility as film and novel, Middlebury College, 1997

Lecture on Shaw’s The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles and participant on various panels, as guest scholar at The Shaw Festival, Ontario, Canada, 1996

Panel Presentation for NAS on Political Correctness, Assumption College, 1996

Presentation of a Scene from Poil de Carotte at French Film Symposium, Middlebury College, 1996

Introduction to French Opera, Middlebury College, 1995

Presentation of scene from High Noon at Westerns Symposium, Middlebury College, 1995

Presentation of scene from 8 1/2 at Fellini Symposium, Middlebury College, 1994

Lecture: “Introduction to Italian Opera” for the Italian Club public meeting, fall 1993.

2 panels of new Shaw scholars. Chair. Virginia Tech Conference on “Shaw and the Last Hundred Years.” Nov. 1992.

Lecture on Shakespeare and Shaw at Lincoln College. Oxford University, 1990.

Performance/reading of dramatic scenes. Middlebury Alumni College, Summer 1987 and Hawthorne Literary Society, Middlebury, 1989.

Lecture on Rear Window . Middlebury Alumni College, 1988.

Paper on Pygmalion. MLA, 1987.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Member editorial board of the SHAW Annual (Penn State U. Press), 1994-

Research towards and writing of a manuscript on the plays of Terence Rattigan.

Articles on Alfred Hitchcock.

Reviews appearing regularly in ELT, SHAW, and other journals.

Solicited to be reader of manuscripts by University Presses (Michigan, Susquehanna, Florida State)

Solicited to speak at Berkshire Drama Festival

Solicited to apply for chairmanship of the Drama Dept. at Indiana University